FAMOUS WRITERS Author Alicja Zajc Suppervised by M

FAMOUS WRITERS Author: Alicja Zając Suppervised by: M. Stasińska

James F. Cooper Name: James Fenimore Cooper The date of birth: 15 th September 1789 The date of death: 14 th September 1851 He debuted as an anonim in 1820 with the novel Care (Ostrożność). Books: • White fang – Biały Kieł • Leather-Stocking Tales Opowieści Skórzanej Pończochy Pięcioksiąg przygód Sokolego Oka • Paluch szatana (Satan's finger) • Pojęcie o Amerykanach 1828 (The concept of Americans) • Czerwony korsarz 1827 (Red corsair)

James O. Curwood Name: James Oliver Curwood The date of birth: 12 th June 1878 The date of death: 13 rd August 1927 In 1908 he published his first book The Courage of Captain Plum (Śród Mormonów). Books: • Nomads of the North Włóczęgi Północy 1919 • Kazan Szara Wilczyca 1914 • The Wolf Hunters Łowcy wilków 1908 • The Gold Hunters Łowcy złota 1909 • The Valley of Silent Men Dolina Ludzi Milczących 1920 • Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail Najdziksze serca 1913

Mark Twain Name: Mark Twain Real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens The date of birth: 30 th November 1835 The date of death: 21 nd April 1910 Books: • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Przygody Tomka Sawyera 1876 Nourman Taurog and George Cukor made a film based on this book in 1938. • The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn Przygody Hucka Finna 1884 Life on the Mississippi Życie na Missisipi 1883 • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County O sławnej skaczącej żabie z Calaveras 1885 It was his first story and he debuted with it as a journalist.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald Name: Francis Scott Fitzgerald The date of birth: 24 th September 1896 The date of death: 21 st December 1940 • This Side of Paradise Po tej stronie raju • The Beautiful and Damned Piękni i przeklęci • The Great Gatsby Wielki Gatsby • Tender is the Night Czuła jest noc • The Love of the Last Tycoon Ostatni z wielkich 1920 1922 1925 1934 1941 He also wrote a lot of stories, in Poland were published: • Historia jednego wyjazdu (1962) • Odwiedziny w Babilonie (1963) • Popołudnie pisarza i inne opowiadania (1989) • In Poland there were also published the letters to his daughter - Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Listy do córki (1982).

Margaret Mitchell Name: Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh The date of birth: 8 th November 1900 The date of death: 16 th August 1949 Mitchell started writing a novel, which was her biggest bestseller „Gone with the wind” in 1926 when she couldn’t leave the bed because she was ill. Her husband, John Marsh, bought her first used typewriter. She was featured in 1937 with Pulitzer Prize for Gone with the Wind (Przeminęło z wiatrem). In 1939 a film based on the book was directed by Victor Fleming. She was awarded: • National Book Award (1936) • Pulitzer Prize (1937) • Shining Light Award In 2000 a collection of stories and novels Before Scarlett which she wrote when she was between 7 and 18 years old was published.

Ernest Hemingway Name: Ernest Miller Hemingway The date of birth: 21 st July 1899 The date of death: 2 nd July 1961 The most of his novels were translated in Polish by his friend – Bronisław Zieliński. Novels • The Torrents of Spring Wiosenne potoki 1926 • The Sun Also Rises Słońce też wschodzi 1926 • A Farewell to Arms Pożegnanie z bronią 1929 • To Have and To Have Not Mieć i nie mieć 1937 • Across the River and Into the Trees Za rzekę, w cień drzew 1950 • For Whom the Bell Tolls Komu bije dzwon 1940 Posthumously (pośmiertnie) • Islands in the Stream Wyspy na Golfsztromie 1970 • The Garden of Eden Rajski ogród 1986 Hemingway was a journalist, a writer, a hunter and a traveller. He was also a soldier and an abulance driver. He survived two plane crashes and he got a Nobel Prize for literature. Unfortunately he had a depression and shot himself.

Stories • Three Stories and Ten Poems, 1923 • In Our Time, 1925 • Men Without Women, 1927 • Winner Take Nothing, 1933 • The Essential Hemingway, 1947 • The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, 1961 • The Nick Adams Stories, 1972 • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, 1987 Other • The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938 (Piąta kolumna, 1999) • Death in the Afternoon (Śmierć po południu, 1932) • The Green Hills of Africa (Zielone wzgórza Afryki, 1935) • Hemingway, The Wild Years, 1962 • A Moveable Feast (Ruchome święto, 1964) • By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, 1967 • Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter, 1970 • 88 Poems, 1979 • The Dangerous Summer, 1985 • Dateline: Toronto, 1985 • True at First Light, 1999 (To co prawdziwe o świcie) • Under Kilimanjaro, 2005

Film adaptations • (1932) Pożegnanie z bronią (Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes) • (1943) Komu bije dzwon (Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman) • (1944) Mieć i nie mieć (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall) • (1946) Zabójcy (Burt Lancaster) • (1947) The Macomber Affair (Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett) • (1950) The Breaking Point (John Garfield, Patricia Neal) • (1950) Under My Skin (John Garfield) • (1952) Śniegi Kilimandżaro (Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward) • (1957) Pożegnanie z bronią (Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones) • (1957) Słońce też wschodzi (Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner) • (1958) Stary człowiek i morze (Spencer Tracy) • (1962) Przygody młodego człowieka (Richard Beymer) • (1964) Zabójcy (Lee Marvin) • (1977) Wyspy na Golfsztromie (George C. Scott) • (1990) Stary człowiek i morze (Anthony Quinn) • (1999) Stary człowiek i morze (Aleksandr Pietrow) • (2008) The Garden of Eden (Mena Suvari, Jack Huston)

Jerome David Salinger Name: Jerome David Salinger The date of birth: 1 st January 1919 The date of death: 27 th January 2010 He started writing when he was 15. His only published novel is The Catcher in the Rye. • The Catcher in the Rye Buszujący w zbożu 1951 • Nine Stories Dziewięć opowiadań 1953 • • Franny and Zooey Franny i Zooey 1961 • Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and • Seymour: An Introduction Wyżej podnieście • strop, cieśle i Seymour – introdukcja 1963 • • "Franny" 1955 • "Zooey" 1957 • • • "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", 1948 ("Idealny dzień na ryby’’) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut", 1948 ("Pan Kostek w Connecticut") "W przeddzień wojny z Eskimosami" (1948) "The Laughing Man", 1949 ("Człowiek Śmiechu") "Down at the Dinghy", 1949 ("Nad jeziorem") "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor", 1950 ("Opowiadanie dla Esmé") "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes", 1951 ("Śliczne usta moje i oczy zielone") "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period", 1952 ("Niebieski okres de Daumier-Smitha") "Teddy" (1953)

Stories Unpublished • "Go See Eddie" • "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" (the date • "The Hang of It" is unknown) • "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" • "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans" (the • "A Boy in France" date is unknown) • "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" • "Two Lonely Men" (1944) • "A Girl I Knew" • "The Children's Echelon" (1944) • "Slight Rebellion off Madison" • "The Magic Foxhole" (1945) • "The Young Folks" (1940) • "The Heart of a Broken Story" (1941) • "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" (1942) • "The Varioni Brothers" (1943) • "Both Parties Concerned" (1944) • "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" (1944) • "Last Day of the Last Furlough" (1944) • "Once a Week Won't Kill You" (1944) • "Elaine" (1945) • "The Stranger" (1945) • "I'm Crazy" (1945) • "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All" (1947) • "The Inverted Forest" (1947) • "Blue Melody" (1948) • "Hapworth 16, 1924" (1965)

Ken Kesey Name: Ken Elton Kesey The date of birth: 17 th September 1935 The date of death: 10 th November 2001 He said about himself: I’m too young to be a beatnik but too old to be a hippis. a young person in the 1950 s and early 1960 s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation His first novel was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It was sold in 8 million copies in the United States. • • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Lot nad kukułczym gniazdem 1962 Sometimes a Great Notion Czasem wielka chętka 1964 Kesey’s Garage Sale 1973 Demon Box 1986 Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear 1990 The Sea Lion 1991 Pieśń żeglarzy 1992